陆 新 建

Reflections - Plaza de Espana, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 200 cm

Lu Xinjian is the first artist to take up residency at The Chapel @ Fabien Fryns located at Alcuzcuz in Southern Spain. Organised and curated by Fabien Fryns, with whom Lu Xinjian has been working since 2010, the artist first researched Andalucia on the internet from his home in Shanghai and made a selection of the most well-known and beautiful areas, including Marbella, Malaga, Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada.

For his first solo exhibition in Spain, Lu Xinjian (China, born 1977) was inspired to create works from his latests Reflections series as well as his original City DNA series, which shows a bird’s eye view capturing the city's DNA with his language of line, form and colour drawn from his personal experience.

About The Chapel @ Fabien Fryns - Artist Residency

The Chapel is a private artist residency in Southern Spain comprising of a working studio located in a former chapel and a separate one bedroom house located at on the grounds of the Alcuzcuz property which was the private home of the legendary interior designer Jaime Parladé. It is located on the Ronda road in the hills above Marbella, and just below the exclusive La Zagaleta residential compound.